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C. 0, ANTHONY, TURBINE WATER WiEJELa APPLIGATIOI FILED JUNE 4.1903.

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CLARENCE O. ANTHONY, OF KENNETOOOK CORNER, CANADA.

TURBNE WATER-WHEEL.

SPECIF"GATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 786,617, dated April 4, 1905. Application led June 4, 1903. Serial No. 159,985.

To a/ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CLARENCE O. ANTHONY, a British subject, residing at Kennetcook Oorner, in the county of Hants, in the Province of NovaScotia and Dominion of Canada, have invented a new and useful Turbine Vater- VVheel, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to that class of turbine water-wheels in which the water enters axially and is discharged tangentially7 at the circumference; and the objects of my invention are to produce a cheaper', more powerful, and more economical wheel than any now in use. I attain these objects by thev mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a side elevation of the case inclosing the wheel. 2 is a plan of the same. Fig. 3 is an elevation of the right-hand end, showing the intake and the position of the conduit-coupling bolts. Fig. 4C is a section of the case on line a 7; of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is an interior elevation of the case with one section removed. Fig. 6 is a section on linel c (l of Fig. l with the wheel in position. Fig. 7 is an elevation of the wheel in section. on an enlarged scale, on line c CZ of Fig. 8. Fig. 8 is a section on line a Z; of Fig. 7.

Similar letters refer to similar' parts throughout the several views.

In the drawings, A and B are the two sections oi' the wheel-case, the joint on Fig. 2 being indicated by the line ef.

E E are the water-chambers from which the water enters the wheel in the direction of the arrows e in Fig. 6.

F is the Wheel-chamber in which the wheel revolves and into which the water from the wheel is discharged.

C is the stuiiing-box gland.

D D are the bearings.

a is the shaft on which the wheel is secured and which passes out through the stuiingbox gland O.

b is the dividing-plate, which is secured to the shaft a.

0 are two formingrings, which are secured one on each side of the dividingplate by the rivets rc a' and project beyond the circumference of said plate a suiiicient distance for the insertion oi' the eyeboltsmI m between them. The edges of these rings are serrated to 'form the seats for the blades f f f, which are held in place by said eyebolts m fm. The curved blades f f f are made of metal plates. They are set eccentric to the shaft and project equal distances on each side or' the dividing-plate thus forming two separate compartments in one wheel. By this method oi' contraction the pressure in one compartment is neutralized by the pressure in the opposite one, which entirely prevents end thrust of the shaft.

c s s are the vents through which the water from the wheel runs into the wheel-cham ber F.

2' are the partitions, which separate the water-cham bers E E from the wheel-chamber F and which converge near the connection to the conduit, meeting at w.

The operation oi the wheel is as follows: The water lowing toward the wheel from the conduit is divided at the intake by the apex w of the wheel-chamber, passing into cach ol the water-chambers E, and from thence into each compartment of the wheel in the direction indicated by the arrows e and discharging into the wheel-chamber E through the vents s s s in the direction indicated by the arrows c, and finally leaving the wheel by the outlet e in the direction of the arrows fn, the water in its egress through the said Vents causing the wheel to revolve with a velocity proportioned to the pressure. the angularity of the blades, and the area of the discharge.

l am aware that water-wheel cases composed of two parts are not new, and l therefore do not broadly claim such as my invention.

What l do claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isM

1. In a water-wheel a disk secured to ashaft at right angles thereto, two formingrings each having corresponding' eccentric serrations in its periphery and attached one to each side of said disk with Itheir serrations projecting beyond its circumference, eycbelts secured in the space between said forming-rings,

and blades Set at right angles to said disk and sha-ft; substantially as described and for the 1 heid 1n engagement with sind sorrations by purpose Specified. i said cyeholts; Substantially its described and 1n testimony whereofhave Signed my name set forth. to this specification in the presence of twosuh- 5 2. lIn ai Water-wheel, si centrally-ammiged scribing witnesses.

disk, eccentric blades centrally attached to the CLARENCE O. ANTHUNY.

periphery of said disk at right angles to its VVitnesseS:

plane oi rotation, in combination with a shaft HUGH MACKENZIE,

carrying seid disk, and it case Supporting Said WM. M. FERGUSON. 

